The Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 11:29am

A Kosovo court on Thursday imprisoned two ethnic Albanians for involvement in organ harvesting.

Aya Batrawy, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 11:27am

Saudi authorities have released three prominent women's rights activists, but continue to hold at least seven others in a sweep targeting prominent icons of the country's women's rights movement, activists and rights groups said Thursday.

Mike Corder, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 11:24am

The missile used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 aboard, belonged to a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday after painstakingly studying video and photos of a military convoy.

Bassem Mroue, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 11:14am

Growing U.S. pressure on Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, including a new wave of sanctions targeting its top leadership, may hamper the formation of a new government that caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri was overwhelmingly chosen to form on Thursday.

Nicole Winfield, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 10:44am

Italy's premier-designate Giuseppe Conte spent his first day on the job Thursday finalizing his proposed cabinet list as European officials vowed to judge deeds, not words, from a decidedly euroskeptic and populist Italy in their ranks.

Eloge Willy Kaneza, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 10:38am

Burundi's main opposition coalition asked the constitutional court on Thursday to invalidate the results of last week's referendum on constitutional changes to allow the president to stay in power until 2034.

A spokesman for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli says the ex-leader is dropping his legal efforts to fight extradition from the United States to Panama.

The Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 10:09am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made good on his promise to demolish his country's nuclear test site, which was formally closed in a series of huge explosions Thursday as a group of foreign journalists looked on.

Philip Issa, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:55am

A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Islamic State fighter in northern Syria who has been linked to terror attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the group announced Thursday.

German police say a World War II bomb that partially exploded while it was being defused in the eastern city of Dresden has been successfully deactivated.

Jon Gambrell, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:43am

Cyclone Mekunu pounded the Yemeni island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea on Thursday morning, lashing it with heavy rain and strong winds as the powerful storm remained on a path to strike Oman this weekend. At least 17 people were reported missing.

Llazar Semini, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:30am

Albania's opposition on Thursday boycotted a resolution expressing support for the launch of negotiations on joining the European Union.

Johnson Lai, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:25am

Burkina Faso has broken diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the West African nation's foreign minister said Thursday, in the latest blow to the self-ruled island that Beijing has been trying to isolate on the global stage.

The Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:24am

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Yanan Wang, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:19am

No explanation has yet been found for a U.S. government employee's report of abnormal sensations of sound and pressure, China said Thursday, as the incident in southern Guangzhou city recalled the experiences of illness-stricken American diplomats in Cuba.

Saleh Mwanamilongo, Associated Press | Posted
May 24th - 9:19am

Congo's fight to rein in a deadly Ebola outbreak has authorities crossing the border to buy up available thermometers, a World Health Organization official said, as the health ministry on Thursday announced that confirmed cases had reached 30, including eight deaths.